“I admire the abstract expressionists and pop artists so right now I'm referencing American '60s art and at the same time referencing Japanese manga culture.” ArtArtistCultureRight NowPopsAdmireAbstractPop ArtReferencing Author:Christian Marclay
“I think it's very disheartening and undermining to focus on nostalgia or youthful sentimentality as the lens through which you view art and culture, because then you feel like everything good already happened. I really just try to be in the present with music and just find the things that are invigorating and make me feel happy to be alive right now.” ThinkingFeelsTryingArtCultureViewsFocusAliveHappenedRight NowNostalgiaLensesSentimentalityUnderminingInvigoratingArt And CultureDishearteningHappy To Be Alive Author:Carrie Brownstein
“I'm not sure I would call it agony but there is a kind of cyclic frustration. You get one story right and then here comes another one. When does that end? What I'm trying to do is get it to end right now, by recognizing that that cycle is writing. That is: trying to understand the frustrations and setbacks (and agony) as part of a bigger chess game you are playing with art itself.” WritingTryingKindDoeArtEndsStoriesGamesRight NowBiggerChessNot SureFrustrationCyclesAgonyRecognizingSetbackChess Game Author:George Saunders
“Right now I'm the greatest. I don't say this through vanity. It's just that the rest are so bad.” ArtRight NowEntertainmentVanity Author:Salvador Dali
“If I hear dance music, my body starts to move. Whatever the dance music is, I can't help it. With all that, I still felt, well, rock is a little higher art, but it wasn't. Right now, because I have so much experience with dance charts, I started to realize that it's incredible art. This is going to be known one day as high art.” IfsWellsLittlesArtStillsI CanHelpingBodyMovingFeltRealizingKnownRocksHigherRight NowOne DayMusic IsIncrediblesDance MusicHigh Art Author:Yoko Ono
“Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" is still in print. They're debating right now over Mark Twain. He's still available. Winslow Homer can still be seen. Our arts are - they're there. We got to go get them and understand that this is an important legacy for our country.” ArtStillsImportantCountryRight NowMarkAvailableOur CountryLegacyGrassPrintWaltLeaves Of Grass Author:Wynton Marsalis
“What is the big deal about Eminem? Since when is offensive language a reason for being unpopular? I like the fact that Eminem is brash and angry and politically incorrect. At least he has an opinion. He's stirring things up. He's provoking a discussion. He's making people's blood boil. He's reflecting what's going on in society right now. That is what art is supposed to do.” PeopleArtReasonFactsBigsLanguageDealsOpinionBloodRight NowArt IsAngryDiscussionOffensiveProvokingBig DealReflectingStirringBrashStirring Things Up Author:Madonna Ciccone
“The entertainment industry, the advertising industry have taken [the] tools from the art world and made themselves much more politically potent. We are really devastated and very impotent right now. A photographer just working for an advertising company has a platform to be much more politically effective in the world than an artist.” WorldArtMadeArtistCompanyTakenIndustryRight NowToolsPhotographerEntertainmentAdvertisingPlatformsArt WorldDevastatedEntertainment IndustryAdvertising Industry Author:Jeff Koons
“All television is an advertisement - that's why it exists. It wasn't the art-form first and then the commerce - it was that they could put on entertainment long enough to distract people into looking at products. It's for focusing people on advertising and separating you from money in some way. Some people forget that. The side product is that we get some great eye candy. TV is the best it has ever been right now. I don't have a problem with that since it's what keep us employed.” PeopleWayFirstsLongArtEnoughProblemEyeFormSidesForgetTelevisionTvsProductsRight NowEntertainmentAdvertisingCommerceEmployedCandyAdvertisementsSeparatingE CommerceEye Candy Author:Chris Hardwick
“I'm only involved really right now with the Art Ensemble of Chicago and the Brass Fantasy.” ArtFantasyInvolvedRight NowChicagoEnsembleBrass Author:Lester Bowie
“Hip hop is just a reflection of what's going on, or where the art is....Technology definitely gives artists a new mind, new voice and creativity. Right now people need to be more places at once....so whatever can get people to the next level to be efficient is how technology is going to be used......The danger is if people are relying too much on the machines, that new mind and new voice always has to come from within.” PeopleIfsNeedsGivingMindArtUsedArtistNextVoiceLevelsCreativityTechnologyToo MuchDangerRight NowReflectionArt IsMachinesHip HopHipsHopsEfficientNext Level Author:Del tha Funkee Homosapien
“My main concern is that there is a balance in the system and that some art-based hip-hop can get out to the masses, 'cause right now people are not responding to what they don't know. Most people are just afraid to think on their own.” PeopleThinkingKnowsArtCausesBalanceRight NowMassConcernHip HopHipsHopsRespondingNot Responding Author:Black Thought
“Whatever experimental film aromas cloaked my movies were because I'm a gleefully clumsy, primitive filmmaker. I really like traditional pleasingly narrative films, but I also just couldn't resist throwing in the disruptive. It seems to me that art-house film is at its glorious zenith right now, maybe it can even get better? There's just so many good films, you know Cemetery Of Splendour, Arabian Nights, Miguel Gomes, just so much great work coming out.” KnowsArtSeemsFilmNightHouseRight NowTraditionalNarrativeGet BetterFilmmakerGloriousThrowingComing OutPrimitiveGreat WorkCemeteryClumsyDisruptiveGood FilmsSplendourAromaArabianZenithArabian Nights Author:Guy Maddin
“Everything can inspire me. I know that sounds like a cop-out answer, but I find inspiration in literally just about everything. As an actor, I have to watch people and observe their behaviors - this is how I create characters. My daily surroundings feed my work, whether it's something I'm working on right now or it's something down the road. Music, art, landscape - these are all things I draw inspiration from.” PeopleKnowsArtCharacterInspirationActorsSoundAnswersWatchesInspireRight NowBehaviorDrawsAll ThingsLandscapeCopSurroundingsDown The Road Author:Josh McDermitt
“I think that's becoming the key to where the whole idea of art and culture are going nowadays anyway, is the idea of curation. Knowing what you like. That's sort of the future right now. Molding something, whether it be a roster on a label, or your blog, or a song, or your DJ set.” ThinkingArtIdeasWholeSongCultureKnowingKeysBecomingRight NowLabelsBlogsDjsMoldingArt And CultureRosters Author:A-Trak
“If I choose this platform [The Black Arts Movement] and God validates this platform, I feel like we have to use the hyper-reality to get people closer to [actual] reality. Right now is so special because it's the information age and people just want to be aware and there's no better way of doing that than through art.” PeopleIfsWayWantFeelsArtUseRealityAgeBlackSpecialInformationMovementRight NowPlatformsBetter WaysHyperInformation AgeBlack Art Author:Kofi Siriboe
“I don't think the world is particularly responsive to - our world, the culture we are in, to art right now.” ThinkingWorldArtCultureRight NowOur World Author:Frederick Busch
“It's overshadowed, the art. We're in a really argumentative, black-and-white-thinking culture right now. There's not a lot of time to take things in.” ThinkingArtCultureBlackWhiteRight NowBlack And White Author:Parker Posey
“There's a big thing right now with people using stand-up as a scapegoat. People think comedians have the power to change someone in an hour. If we had that ability, the art would not be legal. It would too dangerous.” PeopleIfsThinkingArtBigsHoursAbilityDangerousRight NowComedianBig ThingsScapegoatPower To Change Author:Bill Burr
“I understand wanting to do your craft. I understand wanting to have a passion for your art and for your ability to be an actor, to be a singer, to be a dancer - that I understand. Wanting to be famous - I don't get that. But that's where we're living right now.” ArtPassionActorsAbilityRight NowSingersCraftsDancerLiving RightLiving Right Now Author:Lorna Luft
“That's one of the things I haven't had time for in my personal life, is art, and I probably should make more time for it. I also don't have space where I'm living right now to set up a studio, but I'm sure at some point, I will.” ShouldArtLife IsSpaceHavensRight NowStudiosMore TimePersonal LifeLiving RightLiving Right Now Author:Michael Graziadei
“Restaurants, shows, night life, art exhibits, readings - New York is such a cultural epicenter, and while Jersey makes so much sense right now, I really am hoping to have my own future New York City some day.” ArtShowsNightReadingMy OwnCitiesNew YorkRight NowRestaurantsNew York CityJerseyExhibits Author:Lee Kelly
“Right now anything made for the iPad is like performance art. I'm not interested in performance art. Comics are too hard to make to be done for such a passing blip. When it stabilizes, I'll look at it.” LooksArtMadeHardDoneRight NowPerformancesPassingPassingsNot InterestedIpadsPerformance Art Author:Art Spiegelman
“When I can see someone that's posting the way that they're thinking about what's happening in the world right now or even art that they've created, it inspires me to do the same. It makes me turn off my phone and go paint a painting or go hike a mountain or go record a song. Those are the kind of things that social media helps me do. But it also can make me sit in my room and not do anything.” ThinkingWorldWayKindArtI CanHelpingSongTurnsSocialRoomsRecordsMediaInspirePaintingRight NowMountainHappeningsPaintPhonesSocial MediaHelp MeTurn Off Author:Willow Smith
“Independent film is almost nonexistent right now, because all the distributers that used to love to put out these little art films are all out of business right now, because it costs so much to open a movie.” LittlesArtFilmUsedRight NowCostIndependentIndependent FilmUsed To LoveArt Films Author:Ron Perlman
“I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music.” ArtWantedModernRight NowMartial ArtsChoreography Author:Lou Reed
“All information of a spiritual or personal nature will have to come from our father, who art in heaven, and I think he's in New York right now.” ThinkingArtSpiritualFatherHeavenInformationNew YorkRight NowOur Father Book:My Ears Are Bent Source: My Ears Are Bent
“Literary fiction and poetry are real marginalized right now. There's a fallacy that some of my friends sometimes fall into, the ol' "The audience is stupid. The audience only wants to go this deep. Poor us, we're marginalized because of TV, the great hypnotic blah, blah." You can sit around and have these pity parties for yourself. Of course this is bullshit. If an art form is marginalized it's because it's not speaking to people. One possible reason is that the people it's speaking to have become too stupid to appreciate it. That seems a little easy to me.” PeopleIfsWantWritingLittlesArtRealSometimesReasonSeemsFormFallCoursesEasyPoorPartyFictionAudienceStupidTvsRight NowMy FriendsAppreciatePityBullshitFallacyMarginalizedBlahHypnoticPity Party Author:David Foster Wallace